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The Sun Newspaper launches a prepaid MasterCard

The headline that caught my attention this morning is the launch of a Prepaid MasterCard by the Sun. For those who are unfamiliar with the UK newspaper, it is the most widely circulated with over three million copies distributed to almost eight million readers, most of whom are interested in headlines such as “Freddie Starr…

California Blocks Skinner’s Identity Plans

Just after Finextra publish my thought piece on the future method of authentication being RFID style chip implants inside humans, which I’ve blogged about before btw as I do truly believe it will happen, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that the Terminator’s State of California doesn’t like my vision and have banned RFID…

California Blocks Skinner’s Identity Plans

Just after Finextra publish my thought piece on the future method of authentication being RFID style chip implants inside humans, which I’ve blogged about before btw as I do truly believe it will happen, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that the Terminator’s State of California doesn’t like my vision and have banned RFID…

California Blocks Skinner’s Identity Plans

Just after Finextra publish my thought piece on the future method of authentication being RFID style chip implants inside humans, which I’ve blogged about before btw as I do truly believe it will happen, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that the Terminator’s State of California doesn’t like my vision and have banned RFID…

It’s SIBOS, so let’s have a pandemic and close the bank

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

It’s SIBOS, so let’s have a pandemic and close the bank

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

It’s SIBOS, so let’s have a pandemic and close the bank

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

Did anyone notice AMEX’s sixty-five million dollar mess

I was intrigued to see the lack of headlines about American Express this month, especially as they were fined $65 million by the US Department of Justice the other day.  I only caught the news hidden in a US notice about banking matters.  Although it did get a little coverage in America, it wasn’t in…

Did anyone notice AMEX’s sixty-five million dollar mess

I was intrigued to see the lack of headlines about American Express this month, especially as they were fined $65 million by the US Department of Justice the other day.  I only caught the news hidden in a US notice about banking matters.  Although it did get a little coverage in America, it wasn’t in…

2 out of 5 Facebook users give all to identity thieves

New research finds that 41% of Facebook users are happy to reveal all to potential identity thieves.  The researchers found this out by creating a fabricated Facebook profile before sending out friend requests to people chosen at random from around the world.  The fabricated character is one Freddi Staur, an anagram of ID Fraudster.  Freddi…